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SO ridiculous. In 10 years there is going to be no more TV as anyone knows it. You can already watch almost anything you want online for the price of your regular internet connection. These horrible dinosaur companies just keep fighting to stay alive. I say just make the internet into a public utility and then let people pay for the shows and channels they want.

Making the internet a public utility would be a great way to serve the population. But it would take an enormous amount of profit out of the private sector, and under our current system of government the private sector has the power to prevent anything like that.

Maybe - but I think the only private sector that this would hurt would among telecoms, who are basically rent seekers at this point doing very little for innovation. Same goes for Hollywood. An open internet opens the door to countless media entrepreneurs who would quickly pick up the slack left when the big networks exit.